Cigarette rolling machine



Feb. 17, 1942 c, w P I 2,273,787

CIGARETTE ROLLING MACHINE Filed July 30, 1940 Inventors 7/ C/arence [1/ A iiorney Patented Feb. 17,1942

UNITE D STAT-E S PA T ENT "O FF! CE CIGARETTE ROLLING llllACHINE Clarence W. Phillips, Akron, Ohio Application July 30, 1940, Serial No. 348,494

1 Claim.

The present inventionrelates to machines for rolling cigarettes, and has for its primary object to provide a compact portable device of this character adapted to be carried in the pocket of a person or in a similar convenient manner whereby persons may roll their own cigarettes using their preferred tobacco, and embodying a novel roller construction having a longitudinally extending cigarette forming groove therein and adapted through the cooperation of an endless web, for rolling the cigarette in compressed form upon the manipulation of the roller in one direction and embodying means for the ejection of the cigarette upon a reverse movement of said roller.

An object of the invention is to provide means for moistening the cigarette paper used in making the cigarette.

One of the important objects of the present invention is to provide a cigarette rolling machine of this character of simple and practical construction, which is efficient and reliable in performance, relatively inexpensive to manufac- Figure 5 is a perspective view of the supporting bed for thepaper during the moistening thereof.

Referring now to the drawing in detail, wherein for the purpose of illustration I have disclosed a preferred embodiment of the invention, the numeral 5 designates a casing which preferably comprises a pair of spaced parallel end walls 6 and a bottom 1.

A cigarette forming roller 8 is positioned between the end walls 6 and mounted upon a shaft 9 journaled in said wall, the outer end of the shaft being provided with a manipulating wheel or knob Ill. Also journaled between the end walls 6 in a predetermined parallel relation with respect to the roller 8 are a pair of idler rollers H and I2 and trained about the rollers 8, II and i2, is an endless flexible web l3, of any suitable material.

The forming roller 8 is provided with a longi tudinally extending groove M, the cross sectional configuration of the groove being of a form as shown in Figure 2, and being of concaved form throughout the greater portion of its area, and terminating along one longitudinal edge with an undercut lip l5 having its under-cut surface extending at an obtuse angle with respect tothe base of the groove.

The under-cut lip I5 is positioned on the advance side or edge of the groove H! with respect to the roller l2 and when the roller is turned in a counter-clockwise direction when viewed with respect to Figure 2 of the drawing, and a portion of the web I3 is adapted to seat within the'groove Hi to form an elongated pocket for receiving a quantity of tobacco l6, whereby upon the rotation of the roller, the tobacco will be compressed in a loop I! formed in the web I3 between the roller 8 and roller l2, the continued rotation of the roller 8 in a counter-clockwise direction maintaining the compressed roll of tobacco in a cylindrical form. A cigarette paper or wrapper i8 is then positioned edgewise between the rollers 8 and I2, and in a position immediately adjacent the roller 8, the outer edge of the paper being moistened and upon the further rotation of the roller 8 in a counter-clockwise direction, the paper It will be rolled about the compressed tobacco 16, the moistened outer edge of the paper sealing the wrapper in position in a manner well known in the art. The rotation of the roller 8 in a reverse direction will cause the lip I 5 to engage the compressed cigarette and eject the same from its position between the rollers 8 and I2.

In order to moisten the paper as the same is fed into position, I provide a U-shaped support I9 having its ends pivoted on the shaft of the idler roller II' and having its bight portion disposed parallel to the roller 8. A channel shaped pad holder 20 has the felt or absorbent pad 2! positioned therein and is adapted to also receive the bight portion of the support which is wedged between the pad and one Wall of the channel, the pad projecting outwardly of the channel.

A U-shaped paper supporting bed 22 has its ends pivoted on the shaft 9 of the roller 8 with its bight portion formed of strip material and the paper is fed across the bed 22 the pad is,

moved into position for wiping contact with the ent pad carried by the bight portion of the member, and a second U-shaped member having its ends pivoted to the machine and provided with a fiat bight portion to form a bed for a cigarette portion, said members being constructed and arranged for swinging toward each other into 11pstanding converging relation to oppose the pad and bed above the forming roller in gripping relation to a cigarette paper disposed on said bed and with the bed sloping downwardly toward said roller.

CLARENCE W. PHILLIPS. 

